Enclosure and Commonswashing: Clarivate announces “Research Commons” database

This observation describes Clarivate’s introduction of the “Research Commons” database, which draws from data from OpenAlex and Crossref and adds it to a separate database in the Web of Science. This announcement is connected to…

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Version 1.0 - published on 30 Jun 2026 doi: 10.25547/BE2X-P388 - cite this

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This observation describes Clarivate’s introduction of the “Research Commons” database, which draws from data from OpenAlex and Crossref and adds it to a separate database in the Web of Science. This announcement is connected to recent trends seen in open scholarship, such as the corporate appropriation of knowledge commons and commonswashing, an appropriation of the language of the commons without contributing to them.

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  1. AI bots
  2. bibliodiversity
  3. commonswashing
  4. Digital Commons

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